What might make a difference is to rebuild the existing kernel optimized for your processor architecture. Some people swear by this on damn big systems; others say it's not worth the bother.

Recompiling user space apps optimized for your architecture is almost always not worth the bother - an exception would be highly cpu intensive apps such as crackers where a small speed gain is very helpful over a long period of time, and video encoders etc.

As was said there are also a range of kernel configuration optimizations eg leaving out unneeded modules - google.

Mikshaw and lucky13 probably said the more important thing - minimize your ram useage (and/or get more ram) and choose fast apps.

thanks guys for your input. So there is nothing in the 2.6 kernel that the 2.4 allready uses? On the hardware side, how could one increase the bogomips count.(without overclocking)what is the average bogomips for an PII 366mhz.On this machine Im averaging 730 to 770bogomips. Now for my last two questions at the moment. 1. Where could I get technitians manuals for the gateway solo 9100 and at what temp does plastic melt? Again thanks for all the imput. Without asking stupid quesions how could one learn.

What might make a difference is to rebuild the existing kernel optimized for your processor architecture. Some people swear by this on damn big systems; others say it's not worth the bother....

As was said there are also a range of kernel configuration optimizations eg leaving out unneeded modules - google.

Even then, it's probably not a good idea unless you've reached some kind of stasis in your hardware configuration. For someone who's still adding and removing hardware, it's not worth the hassle of stripping out modules that might only have to be added back later.

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So there is nothing in the 2.6 kernel that the 2.4 allready uses? On the hardware side, how could one increase the bogomips count.(without overclocking)what is the average bogomips for an PII 366mhz.On this machine Im averaging 730 to 770bogomips. Now for my last two questions at the moment. 1. Where could I get technitians manuals for the gateway solo 9100 and at what temp does plastic melt? Again thanks for all the imput. Without asking stupid quesions how could one learn.

Sure, there's all kinds of stuff in 2.6 that hasn't reached 2.4 yet. Most of it just doesn't pertain to older systems.

Gateway's website has manuals for their computers.

Bogomips is an arbitrary measure. I still don't think you should mess with the hardware side of things.

Plastics melt at various temperatures. It depends on its formulation. If you're worried about leaving puddles under your laptop and you also have metal shop skills, you can try re-building a case for your laptop out of aluminum or sheet metal. That may not be such a good idea unless you wear asbestos gloves when you type.